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“How could we even think of selling off our infrastructure to foreign companies? Shame on us, shame on us for thinking about it. I will fight any Republican, any Democrat, anyone who wants to take our state from us.” – Texas State Representative Lois Kolkhorst …

While Perry is staking his campaign on Texas being the top net jobs creator, Perry’s version of Texas being “Open for Business” isn’t about low taxes and less regulation as much as it is about doing business with foreign companies, including selling off Texas’ sovereign land and public assets to foreign creditors, an issue which Perry’s first television ad uses to take aim at President Obama. …

The public cannot pressure nor hold accountable a private corporation if the ‘fee’ or ‘tax’ is too high. Public private partnerships are the marriage of the corporation with the state and grants monopolies to private entities for a private rather than a public benefit. …

Watching the Texas House amending the TxDOT Sunset Bill was like watching kids in a candy store, giddy to sell-off Texas to the highest bidder and get to be the next one to do it. The Texas House made a mockery of TxDOT sunset review process. What they did was a disgrace and makes me ashamed to be a Texan. …

HB 3789 re-authorizes Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and resurrects the Trans Texas Corridor. It would grant the private toll road developers control of not only the toll lanes/road, but also non-toll lanes, frontage roads, buildings on the tollway, parking areas, rest stops, ancillary facilities, etc. It’s eminent domain for private gain all over again, which is what caused a Texas-sized backlash against the TTC in earnest in 2007, when a moratorium on PPPs was put in place. …

From the producers of the award-winning series,”Truth Be Tolled,” a powerful NEW documentary exposes the controversial truth behind converting our free roads into toll roads, like 281 and 1604, a HUGE …